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But then last summer for the first time, not our first time in Africa, but the first time doing it this way, we said, we're going to go to Africa, we're going to have a safari, we're going to upcharge everybody so we can bring a priest, we're going to have Holy Mass every morning, opportunities for confession throughout it, and that's it. Every single man listening just about has that desire to do something that is dangerous. We've taken sort of the American ideal, which I think is an offshoot of Protestantism, right? This pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, right? And we've tried that in this modern world. And there's a time and a place for that, right? I think it's really great to be self-sufficient in lots of ways. But pure self-sufficiency is disordered. It's not natural. You're not an island, right?

You're not supposed to exist by yourself.

The whole stoic, by your own, pull yourself up by your own bootstrapped thing, I think it's lame.

So you're scheduling hunts, not just in Africa, but around the country, different times of the year.

So if people go to, what's their website again?

Fraternity of St. Hubert.com.

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or does not love so i told you this before we came on the air on the car right over here. Like, I'm nervous for the first time because I'm actually doing like a thing. I'm here to talk about a real thing. And I haven't done that historically. And we were talking about some of the best comments ever. And there's two that stick out to me. And you let me know if you've got any others. but the first one is one guy wrote, I don't remember if this was the last one or the one before, but I listened, this is the quote, I listened for about half an hour, and these guys just kept band-rined back and forth telling inside jokes that I didn't understand, and I was driving, so I couldn't select another podcast. So I just turned off my radio and sat in silence. It's pretty good. Yep. And then the second? This was the original. This was, I don't know, five, six years ago. I was on the Raising Kids in Sodom, which I thought was a good episode. You said what we called it. Yeah, isn't that a great name? It's great name. And a guy said, I love, I love Pines for Aquinas. Matt will have these really smart theologians on, and then these dip S-H-I-T's like John Henry on. Really? Oh, I'm sorry. No, no, it seemed like a legitimate, like, compliment. I think he compared it to Joe Rogan.

He was like, you know, a lot of these fighters don't know anything about anything on and these smart guys who know stuff. So I took it that way. I took it as a compliment. Well, what was the classic comment was this guy looks like his one hand sandwich away from a heart attack? All right, so big shout out to one of my students. I might have said this last time I was on the air,

but if I did, I'll tell the story again.

Victor of Scorpio, right?

Great kid.

He's out of Benedicting now, killing it.

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